These records include minutes (1682-1775), papers (1682-1776), and colonial records (1682-1775).

These papers include correspondence, resolutions of the Board of Trade (1694), minutes of the Board of Trade (1694), laws passed by the General Assembly (1700-1702), and laws established by James, Duke of York, for New Jersey (1667).

These volumes contain lists of Philadelphia craftsmen, compiled from the city directories, 1785-1800, and arranged alphabetically within each craft or trade. Included in the index are similar data gleaned from Philadelphia newspaper advertisements.

Several pieces of correspondence included with minutes.

This collection includes minutes and rough minutes of the Managers; Attending Managers' accounts; treasurer's and other financial records; cash books, ledgers, monthly accounts, and receipt books of the steward and matron; materials relating to the medical staff and instruction; patients' records and accounts. There are materials on buildings and grounds and on the library, museum, and the painting of "Christ Healing the Sick" by Benjamin West.

These minutes, kept in the hand of Provost William Smith, concern the German free schools, and include letters and reports in full or abstract.

This journal was written during the survey of the Mason and Dixon line. Also on this reel are minutes from the Joint Commissioners of Lord Baltimore and the Penns (1760-1768), and field notes and journal of the surveys of Lord Baltimore and the Penns (1761-1763).

These papers are mostly typed transcripts of letters, documents, and notes, relating to the history and construction of the Pennsylvania State House and its restoration in the early twentieth century.

This volume contains sections pertaining to the theory and practice of pharmacy, a distribution of medicinal simples, directions for extemporaneous prescriptions, and an instruction for disease diagnosis.

These are individual accounts for labor and building supplies.

This journal includes a record of Wood's travels to Niagara Falls (N.Y.) and Quebec, and professional activities in Philadelphia.

The archive of this village literary and scientific lyceum contains its constitution and by-laws, minutes, library catalogues, treasurer's accounts, membership rolls, and correspondence.

From the Board of Trustees of the Estate of Stephen Girard, these films are the complete archive of one of the largest mercantile and financial operations in the United States of his day. The collection includes correpondence, with translations of letters in French (139 reels). It also includes bank records, account books, ledgers, cash books, and journals; papers, documents, and records of trading voyages (arranged by vessel and date); records of Girard's country house, "The Place"; records of real estate, rents, etc.; prices current of ports of the world. There is a card index of correspondents and ships (14 reels). Included is a card file, a unique and invaluable research tool, this is an index of names and places and alphabetical abstracts of Philadelphia newspaper items and advertisements for the period covering ca. 1718-1795. Roach made a systematic search through eighteenth-century newspapers and several other sources, for biographical and subject information on Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians of the period. It is primarily biographical , but subject headings, such as "The Barracks," "Blue Lion, Sign of the," "Custom House," are scattered throughout. The source of each entry is cited, and there are brief annotations. There is also a miscellaneous assortment of volumes that were received with the Kane family papers.

A leading Jeffersonian journalist, Benjamin Franklin Bache was the eldest son of Richard and Sarah (Franklin) Bache, and grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Educated in France and Switzerland, Bache returned to the United States with his grandfather in 1785 and by 1790, had established himself as editor of the Aurora, a newspaper that became one of the most important voices for radical Republicanism in early national Philadelphia. Bache died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1798. His son Franklin Bache became a noted physician and chemist, teaching at the Franklin Institute (1826-1832), the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (1831-1841), and at Jefferson Medical College. The Castle-Bache Collection contains a diverse assemblage of both personal and professional correspondence relating to the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin Bache, with interesting material relating to Bache's son, Franklin, and later generations of the Bache family. The collection also includes genealogical materials on the Franklins, Baches, Markoes, and cognate families, as well as a selection of miscellaneous printed materials.

The journal contains an account of a visit to the Indians of New York State.

These letters of American Philosophical Society members and prominent early American scientists were selected from Carson's extra-illustrated draft of "A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia, 1869).